 Good evening, and thank you to everyone who has joined us during this thunderstorm morning and a tornado warning. This is the ultimatum in Wedgemont, Winifred, and Missy Water and Sewer Improvement Project Community Design Meeting. This project is in Council District 6. The construction may impact the Wedgewood Square Neighborhood Association and the Wedgewood East Neighborhood Association. Your project manager is Dena Johnson. She's reached at 817-392-7866 or you can email dena.johnson at forwardtexas.gov. And the link to the project page is also listed in the chat and it will also be on the PowerPoint. This meeting is being recorded and it will be posted to the project page no later than 48 hours after the meeting. I'm going to turn this over to Dena Johnson. Dena, we are having technical difficulties. Hang on just a second. Good evening and thank you for joining us on this community design meeting. We have an agenda. We're going to be following. We start with introduction, project overview, project area, frequently asked questions. Your design project team includes myself. I'm Dena Johnson, project manager. My telephone number is 817-392-7866. Email dena.johnson at forwardtexas.gov. Engineering design consultant is RLG. Brent Lewis is the project manager. Project overview. Water and sanitary sewer mains will be replaced in an area bound by Winifred Drive to the north. Maccord Avenue to the east, Sycamore School Road to the south and south of Ulan Street to the west. These improvements are in Council District 6. Construction will impact the Wedgewood Square Neighborhood Association and the Wedgewood East Neighborhood Association. Project overview. We are having to replace sewer line in Alta Mesa Boulevard from Vega Drive to 820 feet to the west. We have water and sewer replacement in South Ulan Street from Willock Drive to Elton Drive. And we have sewer replacement in an East-Ment east of Wedgemont Circle from 115 feet east of the Winifred Drive at Wedgemont Circle intersection, 240 feet to the east. Another sewer replacement in an East-Ment south of Winifred Drive from 150 feet east of the Wedgemont Circle at the Winifred intersection, 240 feet east. Another sewer replacement in the East-Ment between 7021 south Misty Meadow Drive and 7025 south Misty Drive from Misty Meadow Drive to 150 feet east. Questions normally asked, why are you doing this project? Fort Worth a Prior to Rise water and sewer line replacements based on available data which includes the water main brake history, lead history, CCTV, closed circuit, TV inspection. This is where we installed a camera into the pipe to tell us the condition of the pipe, edge of the line, line material and whether there are lead service or cast iron water service lines. In this instant, the project was created because of the water cast iron pipe initiative, the city of Fort Worth is implementing to reduce the amount of water main brakes, as well as the condition and edge of the sanitary sewer lines in the area. Will you need access to our property? This construction is in the public right away and or in the utility easements. If Fort Worth water needs access to your property, we will contact you prior to the start of construction. Will our sewer service be disrupted? Sanitary sewer service will not be interrupted. New sewer clean outs will be installed at the property line. The sewer clean out provides those easy access if a backup or blockage occurs. The sewer line from the clean out to the house is the owner's responsibility to maintain. Will our water be turned off? Water will be turned off for 15 to 30 minutes when service is transferred from the existing line to a temporary water line and when the service is transferred from the temporary to the new line. These switchovers are done during the day. The contractor will knock on the door and let customers know when the water will be turned off. The transfer typically takes about 30 minutes per house or business. How does the temporary line impact my home and water bill? The temporary water line ensures that you are not without water during construction. In the summer months, the continuous flow keeps the water from becoming stagnant and the above the ground line. The bill for your water usage while you are on the temporary line during the warmer months is based on the average of the previous month's usage. During the winter months, water must be continually flowing through the temporary line to keep the line from freezing. Customers should also keep their faucets dripping. If you see water running down the street, don't turn it off. Before we can connect your services to the new water line, the inspector has to take water samples. We call that flushing the line. The water flow from flushing the line will be continuous until the inspector gets the samples for the day. You will be connected to the new water main after two consecutive samples past the bacteriological test. When it's time to sample the water flowing through the new water main, the contractor will replace traffic cones around the valve to prevent anyone from parking over the valve. Don't move the cones, don't park over the cones and don't turn off the water valve. What part of the sewer line are customers responsible for? The city side of the line starts at the main in the street and goes to the customer's sewer clean out. The customer's side of the service line goes from the sewer clean out to the house and include the plumbing inside the house. Are we getting a new curb, gutter and sidewalks? Existing curb, gutter, sidewalks and driveways will not be replaced except in certain circumstances, which includes those that are damaged by the contractor during construction. The contractor may need to remove and replace some curb and gutter and sidewalks to restore services. The contractor will also remove and replace driveway approaches that currently have water meters located in the approach that must be relocated. What happen if my property is damaged? The contractor will take pictures and video of the property before breaking ground. We also encourage the property owners to take pictures and video of their property before construction commences. Damage resulting from the contractor's activity during construction is responsibility of the contractor. Will the water and sewer construction affect my irrigation? The contractor has to cap irrigation lines before construction starts. The contractor will ask property owners to turn on their irrigation systems so the sprinkler heads can be located and flagged. The contractor will replace capped or damaged irrigation system. Are there restrictions on when we can water our lawns? Yes, requirements include no watering by irrigation systems or sprinklers between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Watering by hand held hose, a drip irrigation or soaker hose is allowed at any time. Twice a week irrigation system or sprinkler schedule will with assigned days for all water customers. The schedule is like on Monday, no watering allowed on Tuesday and Friday, non residential sites such as apartment, businesses, parks and common areas. On Wednesday and Saturday residential addresses ending with even numbers on Thursday and Sunday residential addresses ending with odd numbers. Will there be lane closure during construction? Expect lane closure when the contractor is installing the water and sewer lines. Signs will be posted to alert motorists. The hour of construction are 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and if requested by the contractor 9 a.m. to 4 or 5 p.m. on Saturdays. Will the city's trash truck be able to pick up my trash and recycling during construction? If your side of the street is closed on your schedule trash collection day, the contractor will take your trash and recycling carts to the opposite side of the street. So the trash collection vehicle can pick it up. Timeline. This is a design meeting. The next steps include finalizing the design, advertising the project for bids, opening bids, city council approval to award the bid to the contractor. Preconstruction meeting with the contractor and inspector, a community construction meeting to update those impacted by the project. Construction starts. Where can I get more information? Progress will be updated on the city of Fort Worth website, the link below. And you can also go to www.fortworthtexas.gov and put the project number 102785-2 in the search bar on the homepage. The link to this meeting video, the project map and the project summary frequently asked questions will be linked to this project page. Contact again. I'm Dina Johnson project manager. My telephone number 817-392-7866. My email address is dina.johnson at www.fortworthtexas.gov. How do I report an emergency or non-emergency? For emergencies, water mainly breaks, sewer backups, 24-hour a day, this number 817-392-4477, select option 1. For non-emergencies, you can call the water call center from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. The phone number 817-392-4477 closed city holidays. Download the MyFW Fort Worth FW app from the app store or Google Play. You can report sewer overflow leaks and water main breaks, missing or broken meter bits, water theft, water violation, no water service, water pressure issues and other sewer concerns. With that, I want to thank you for listening. Okay. We don't have any questions in the chat. Doug, you get the award for coming to a meeting during a tornado warning, especially on the west side. Do you have any questions about the project? Frankly, the only real questions I have are what's how this might impact us as residents, how this might inconvenience us. What happens when not if? Because I fully expect this is going to happen. We can't get into our driveways. There's a truck in front of my driver or a trench in front of my driver that I can't get to my house at a convenient time. Dana? Yes. Normally, if the contractor replacing your driveway, well, normally we'll make all attempt for you to get in and out your driveway. But if in case your driver will be replaced, they have to put concrete and sometimes you cannot drive over the concrete. It will be a inconvenience sometimes. So you probably have to park somewhere beside the house or close by or across the street. But this is just if the driveway is being replaced. How is that going to be coordinated? Are they going to how are they going to communicate with that with us? Because one of the things I'll point out is that me in particular. I live on human street. I live directly across the street from JT Stevens elementary school. There's not really a convenient place to park around the corner for me. Normally the inspector or the contractor will notify you. They'll contact you. They'll knock on your door. They'll make sure you are aware what's going on around your home. Okay. Okay. I understand these things happen and that's just life. The other question I have is we've already got some ongoing natural gas line work that's been going on since like last October in the neighborhood here. How is this going to be coordinated with this new sewer and water line work? We normally send the plants to utility clearance. I'm aware that they started to work. All the utilities started to work on the area where we talked about today. And normally we do not go to work unless the utilities are clear. And we will coordinate with them on a monthly basis to know which streets are working on before we even advertise the project. So we don't conflict to have two contractors working at the same time on the job. So the utilities has to clear first before we even go in and have our contract are working on the project. I understand. I understand. I may have missed this at the first of this presentation. Is there an official start date for this work? We coordinate as I said with the utilities. We're planning on having the construction start sometimes next fall. And we will keep you updated on the city website as how the progress is coming along. Right, Sally? Yes. We always do a push out the projected end date each month if there's a change. And we'll also have another meeting, community construction meeting. And that will include the contractor, the inspector, Dina, and they should have a pretty good idea of what street, what order the streets will go in. That sounds good to me. So next fall, but you don't have a more specific date than that. Not yet. No. Okay. Okay. I understand. That's really all the questions that I have. And I know that there's a lot more to be developed as time goes on. So that's really all I have. Okay. Thank you. We appreciate you for being a trooper and coming to the meeting, Doug. Thank you. Well, as a resident and I do have some construction background myself. So like I say, I understand. Mostly, I want to make sure that I can answer the questions that my wife is going to be proposing to me because you can get this meeting. So, you know, that goes to. Does anybody else have anything to add? No, but thank you for joining us. Appreciate it. Okay. Oh, what Doug, you probably meant to this. There's going to be a YouTube video link of this WebEx meeting on the project page. Give us about 48 hours at the, at the most and we'll get that fat up there. And we also do summary FAQs in English and Spanish. It's probably going to be second week in April before I can get the Spanish translation because my translator is out with surgery, but we will have the English version on that same project page. Very good. Well, thank you everybody for coming. Thank you.